Cold, Flu, C9 Kit – 20 Homeopathic Remedies

Kit Contents

There are obviously many more remedies which address symptoms of colds and flu. Please contact your homeopath for further help before symptoms become severe – the earlier you treat, the quicker symptoms resolve.

If symptoms do not improve in a reasonable timeframe see your homeopath, GP, ED or contact Health Direct on 1800 022 222.

What’s in the Kit?

1. 1. Aconite: Useful at first sign of cold, cough, earache, etc. Symptoms may come on suddenly, often in the night, after exposure to cold wind or following a fright. Fever with dry burning heat, strong thirst, intense pain and restlessness. Fear they may die. Worse around midnight. Better: open air.
   2. Anas Barb (Oscillo) 200c: Anti-v and anti-b action. If taken at first sign of cold, flu or other v*ral symptoms, may stop it progressing. Use as part of your management for colds and flu with indicated remedies (or use Get Prepped which is broader spectrum).
   3. Antimonium Tart: Rattly, wheezy, wet, chesty breathing with very little mucous coming up. Feels/sounds as if may suffocate, coughing and gasping, sometimes with nausea. Tongue coated, pasty, thick white. Worse: 3-4am lying down, warm room. Better: vomiting.
   4. Arsenicum Album: Burning pains and discharges – mucous, diarrhoea, throat, etc. Colds, headaches, sinus, insomnia. Symptoms often out of proportion to illness. Weak, anxious and restless when sick, fear when alone, anxiety about health, fussy and difficult to please. Very thirsty for frequent sips. Worse: midnight to 2am, for cold food and drink, Better: heat, hot drinks and food, company, fresh air (headaches).
   5. Belladonna: Fever with throbbing pains, burning radiating heat, bright red face, restless, usually no thirst with fever. Lethargic, delirious, barking cough, strawberry tongue. Earache, flu, sore throats. Worse: touch, light, noise, being jarred, draughts to head, night. Better: warmth, pressure.
   6. Bryonia: Headache, joint/back/neck pain. Dryness and strong pain are characteristic. Any movement aggravates, even talking or just moving the eyes. Sitting up can bring on vomiting. Dry painful coughs and colds which descend to chest, numonia. Very irritable, better alone. Very thirsty for cold drinks. Worse: deep breathing, hot room, dry weather, movement, touch. Better: pressure and lying on painful part.
   7. China: Ill effects of dehydration, acute illness with great weakness. Drenching sweats at night, flu with debility, periodic fevers. Useful recovery remedy after loss of fluids with great weakness. Worse: cold damp weather, autumn, from touch. Aversion to touch. Better: from hard pressure.
   8. Eupatorium Perforatum: Classic flu remedy, similar to Bryonia with sore, bruised pains in the bones, (as opposed to muscles – Gelsemium), bones as if broken. Unquenchable thirst for cold drinks.
   9. Ferrum Phos: First remedy to think of in beginning of any acute where there is inflammation/heat, eg fever, earache, or just for general unwellness. Keynote is that there are no keynotes; symptoms are vague. Patients take cold easily and are susceptible to chest troubles. TS Acutes (which includes Ferrum P)- can be useful for beginnings of ailments with a runny nose. Better: gentle exercise, warmth. Worse: cold air, exertion, 4-6am.
   10. Gelsemium: Heaviness, weakness, drowsiness with heavy, drooping eyelids. Trembling, chills and heat up and down spine, flu symptoms with aching muscles (see Eup Per). Nervous with frequent urination or diarrhoea. Symptoms after shock or fright. Worse: anticipation, humid weather, surprises, Better: urination, sweating.
   11. Hepar Sulph: Sore throats with pain spreading to ear, splinter-like pain (anywhere), like a fish bone or pin. Chunky, productive coughs. Inflammation, slow to resolve – ears, chest colds. Over-sensitivity is a keynote. Angry, irritable, difficult when sick. Very chilly. Better: warmth, wrapping up. Worse: getting cold, being in a draught, cold dry weather, fresh air, at night, touch, pressure.
   12. Phosphorus: Scrapy throat, sensation of a lump, hawking (coughing up phlegm), cough worse lying down. Generally no fever, no body ache. Blood nose, green or yellow/green mucous. Very thirsty for cold drinks, which may be vomited. Anxious, fearful (being alone, dark, death, storms), desires company. Irritable and sluggish when ill, apathetic, energy flares and subsides to exhaustion again. Better: after sleep, cold drinks, massage, company. Worse: cold, weather change, thunderstorms, being alone.
   13. Phos Ac: A useful later-stage remedy where there is weakness (emotional and physical) and slow recovery.
   14. Pulsatilla: Anything with lots of mucous; thick, yellow or yellow-green or creamy. Coughs dry at night and loose morning, earaches, fever, styes, upset tummies. Weepy, clingy, whingy when sick and desire company. Changeable moods and symptoms. Chilly but dislike heat and stuffy rooms. Usually thirstless. Worse: rich, fatty food, evening. Better: company, fresh air, cold food and drink, after crying.
   15. Rhus Tox: Back ache, hot painful swelling of joints, sore joints, worse for first movement, better once gets going. Cold sores, shingles, colds and coughs. Tongue may have triangular red tip. Worse: cold, wet weather, before storm, night, getting chilled or wet after being hot, over exertion. Better: heat, hot baths, movement.
   16. Cold and Flu: Included as a good first stage remedy if you’re unable to select from the above to start with. Includes many of the most indicated remedies for a range of similar situations. If symptoms progress or change, select a single remedy if you can.
   17. Chesty – Cough: There are a few single cough remedies in the kit, which double for other symptoms, but coughs can be tricky to manage, so our Chesty Cough combo is there if you struggle to work out which remedy fits.
   18. Immune Boost: A combination of traditional homeopathics to support and boost the whole system through illness. Use as part of your management protocol. May be used as a general immune support.
   19. Recovery Combo: Includes a selection of remedies traditionally used to brace up the system and aid recovery after an illness when there is lingering fatigue, weakness and cough.
   20. Get Prepped: (relative to current year – previously known as Winter Prep) – a general support remedy to take weekly, may also be used as part of a management protocol (three times a day for first three days) along with other indicated remedies. Most years this remedy is “tweaked” to match what’s going on!

    

Our kits are suitable for the management of minor ailments and self-limiting illnesses and not for the home treatment of chronic, ongoing or serious conditions or named diseases.

Homeopathy is deemed to be low risk by the Therapeutic Goods Administration. The remedies are effective when used in accordance with the homeopathic indications. If in doubt as to their appropriateness to a particular situation, consult your health care practitioner.

Use only as directed. Always read the label or information supplied. If symptoms persist see your health care practitioner.